Servicing Mechanical Seals - Vertical Votator Ii - SPX Votator II Instruction Manual

Waukesha Cherry-Burrell
Figure 70 - Double Mechanical Seal
Installed
Figure 71 - Exposing Top Mechanical
Seal
Figure 72 - Shaft Clamp
Figure 73 - Installed Shaft Clamp
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7. Slide seal body over seal body drive pin so that O-ring in
body seats in groove in mutator shaft.
8. Check seal to insure that it will move freely with spring and
that drive pins hold it stationary with respect to shaft.

Servicing Mechanical Seals - Vertical Votator II

The top mechanical seal can be serviced by lowering the shaft to
the floor and removing the seals from the shaft while the spline
end is in the heat transfer tube. See Figure 71. See "Mechanical
Seal Maintenance" on page 56 for information regarding
servicing the seal.
The bottom mechanical seal can be serviced with the mutator
shaft in the unit by using the shaft clamp. See Figure 72.
1. Lower shaft approximately two (2) feet or to a convenient
height.
2. Remove top two (2) exposed scraper blades.
3. Position shaft so that blade pins are centered between the
bayonet ring on the heat transfer tube.
4. Install shaft clamp around teeth of tube and shaft.
(See Figure 73, Item A)
5. Close locking latch. (See Figure 73, Item B)
6. Lower shaft until a pin from right or left side contacts shaft
clamp. SHAFT MUST BE SUPPORTED BY A PIN AND
NOT BY A SCRAPER BLADE.
7. Lower hydraulic arm and rotate it out of the way.
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Maintenance
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